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That was close. Technically I skipped two calendar days of posting, but it is still Thursday night to me, ha ha! I, as always, have old fashioned excuses that consist of classics like “disheartened Philadelphia Fan Syndrome” and “I helped with yard work so I’m tired” disease. If you don’t want to hear my sports rant, skip to paragraph three.

Wednesday night was just pathetic, in every sort of way. From my recent re-blogged post, you know that as a Philadelphia fan, “we” as fans are a part of the team; except when “we” are losing. It instantly turns to “they” with sailor-like language and rampant anger. I start to exclaim things that I normally wouldn’t say in the presence of my Dad. After the loss, “we” returns in the form of continued anger, hostile questioning of play and heartbreak with fellow players, I mean, fans.

The Philadelphia Flyers are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and Wednesday night, I mean last night, was Game 4, the mother of all games; when your team is about to sweep anyway. Now you get my title, the Flyers were up 3-0 in the series and only needed to win this game to take “us” to the next round. There we were, going to put it to Sidney Crosby (I will omit the name calling I’d like to use) and take the series at home from the Penguins; there we were, losing 10-3. In hockey. High scores like this are ridiculous. This whole series has been back to back amazing shots on goal and poor goal tending. That night, there was not so much scoring on our end and just terrible goal tending. If any actual Flyer players read this…venture back to my Pep talk post I did on Tuesday and get out there with some enthusiasm and take this home tomorrow or “we” will be extremely upset. So after the game, my house was silent and I couldn’t stop shaking my head back in forth in disgust to steadily keep any blogging thoughts in my head. Terrible. But tomorrow is a new day and Game 5.

Tonight I helped my husband in the yard. I’m glad to because it’s my house too and I do enjoy helping him. It also makes eating some ice cream on a beautiful spring evening feel justified. Continue reading →

Whether we like to or not, there are well known people in the world that we simply like, let’s call them celebrities. The reasons could be for any reason really; they could remind you of your favorite relative, they are simply gorgeous to gawk at or you adore their body of work. I tend to want to get to know people well when I like them. I don’t think this is very uncommon, but when I admire the work of a celebrity, I sometimes reading about them and discovering the (wo)man behind the magic. Maybe it is the investigative part of me. The tricky thing is to learn for fun and not actually think you know them because a few articles were read. We also can’t invest ourselves in a person we don’t know. This is what happens to the stalkers and teen idol fans.

A good friend of mine from years ago loved tabloids and the who’s who of Hollywood. We both enjoy kitschy humor, goofy characters and pretty much any witty comedy. We would quote Seinfeld on a regular basis because so much of the humor fit into daily life and I remember telling her that Julia Louis-Dreyfuswas going to be on one of the late night shows.

She went on to explain that whenever she develops a fondness for a character or an actor, she refuses to watch anything which presents the actual personality of the actor/actress. She explained that if they said something that rubbed her the wrong way or if she saw them in a different light than what she envisioned in her mind, it would ruin the entertainment part of it. I thought it was a little silly at first, but looking back, I can’t say I disagree.

The last thing I want to do is create a political debate, but I find that when celebrities that I’d typically really enjoy on screen, back politicians I don’t support or if they make bad choices in general, it really does affect my enjoyment of their work. I guess I should elaborate. The guys and gals of Hollywood who cheat on their spouses, I just have a difficult time seeing them in romantic roles after that. Ashton Kutcher for example, used to be a goofy, sort of cute Midwest guy who I now see as a sleaze ball. Don’t try to reel me into a romantic comedy about how he is the down and out guy who needs love but keeps getting rejected. I won’t buy into it. And I could care less about Demi Moore mind you, I just won’t be able to believe the characters they intend to portray.

This is stupid for several reasons, because:

A) We are all entitled to our own beliefs and lifestyles, as you and I are.

B) Why I believe they need to appease my feelings so I watch their show is beyond me.

C) They are just people who should not be glorified in any way, anyway.

Now, trust me when I say that I do not glorify celebrities, particularly since I don’t have the time to sit down and watch enough pop culture to really know who half the celebrities are today as it is. But I think because I’m a realist, I just like to see people for who they are. I have a very difficult time letting them trick me into believing they are an alternate character. I don’t know if I’m proud of that or I’m just a fool for simply not taking entertainment for exactly what it is supposed to be; entertainment.

This is the cheesiest post I’ve ever written. If my main complaint today is that I can’t envision a romantic comedy with the lead played by an adulterer, life must be pretty good.